On Thursday, Donald Trump nominated lawyer Eric Dreiband to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which is in charge of issues like racial discrimination and LGBTQ rights, Mic reports. Though Dreiband enforced workplace non-discrimination laws as part of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the past, civil rights groups are concerned about his record of defending companies against discrimination lawsuits.

In 2015, for example, Dreiband defended Abercrombie & Fitch against a suit claiming they refused to hire a Muslim teen because she was wearing a headscarf, The Washington Post reports. The company ultimately lost the case. He also defended Bloomberg against a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company against an age discrimination lawsuit, and he's currently defending The Washington Post against an age and race discrimination suit.

On top of that, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union Washington Legislative Office Jesselyn McCurdy, said in a statement to Politico that Dreiband has defended companies that don't want to cover birth control in their insurance plans and spoken in support of an anti-trans law.

According to Vox, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division head is expected to do the opposite of what Dreiband’s track record shows: bring charges against companies suspected of discrimination.

“Now, more than ever, the leader of the Civil Rights Division must uphold its mission," Vanita Gupta, who led the Civil Rights Division under Obama, said in a statement to Vox. "This is an administration that has shown an open hostility to, and a demonstrated record of, undermining our nation’s core civil rights. We need a leader who will take the lessons of previous administrations and reject the politicization of the division." Gupta believes Dreiband's history makes him "the wrong person for the job."